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Description
Owing to the Absence II is an original ink-on-paper portrait from Bartosz Beda’s Owing to the Absence series (2022–23). The face at the center of the composition is crossed by vertical drips and scattered bursts of black ink, as if caught in rain or marked by time. Beneath the movement, the features remain legible — watchful, resolute, still.
The contrast between the deliberate portrait and the ungovernable drips gives the work its tension: a human presence rendered permanent in ink, yet visibly subject to forces beyond its control.
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